B10[mg]

Joffie and I suffer the same problem. We want to study a language (Svensk for him, Bahasa Indonesia for me) yet we can't really find time to actually sit down and practice our vocabulary.

But given the creativity Joffie usually possesses, he came up with an awesome idea to do study, and make it fun (in a nerdy way) too. Joffie and I usually log in to several machines a million times a day. This all is done over SSH connections, using authorized_keys to prevent typing your passwords over and over again (we both don't even know most of our passwords anymore ;-)

Since we both utilize the ssh command so many times, Joffie wrote a little Perl script that is called before the ssh command (using an alias). The Perl script gives a Dutch word, and asks for the translation. If you're right, SSH will kick in and you will be logged in to the machine in question. If you fail ... bad luck, try again!

This looks like:

menno@immortal$ marduk
NL: een (1)
Bahasa Indonesia: satu
Correct!
menno@marduk$ 

and when I'm wrong:

menno@immortal$ marduk 
NL: drie
Bahasa Indonesia: dua
Wrong, the answer was: tiga
menno@immortal$

I use a Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) text file, while Joffie, of course, uses a Swedish file.

To check this all out, see Joffie's Svensk - learning words the nerdy way